feel recordings in the evershift

By Edwin Torres

• Description
• Reviews

• In richly immersive and sonically engaging poems, American Book Award winner Edwin Torres sculpts language toward a landing place for sensorial and ecological input. Torres’s new collection, feel recordings in the evershift, investigates ecology and the body as fields of perception, seeking to record this felt world and allow the reader a chance to roam within their own recordings. A longtime teacher and performance artist, globally active in collaboration with many multidisciplinary communities, the poet explores placemaking as self-making, portraying for the reader the wide-ranging possibilities of poem making. This record of investigation and deep listening reveals poetry’s ability to connect the body to the earth’s continual shift. As we experience the ecopoetics formed through this process, we are asked to join Torres in challenging a poem's function on the page, in the reader, and within the world.

  
  

• Previous Praise:

• Edwin Torres's poetry is more than a high energy-construct—it is words and sounds gone wild, like dancers straining to break free of pattern. His prose poems are clusters of dazzling density that let 'every sound in.' And out. Everywhere, the borders have broken down. There is no other poet who writes like Torres. Elaborate, chanting, pointed, and granite in their 'octaves of shine,' his poems have it all. They are a real and gritty pleasure to read, a necessary tonic to these toxic times.
  John Yau

   

• Poet and performance artist Torres (Ameriscopia) cannibalizes the book form through a hybrid assemblage of various experimental gestures juxtaposed with plainspoken lines... Torres demands attention to the invention of a new kind of language that contains the possibilities of opening up a sparkling new world.
  Publishers Weekly
  
  

• Torres manifests himself, and his readers, by his act of writing. He calls forth what is unknown by naming it thusly, and dissolves any easy logics by troubling them in momentous, springboard fashion. With XoeteoX, Torres invites us to enter into this heady performance with him to reach past and on to the next truths and our future selves.
  Arkansas International